Wednesday, 20 January 2010

The Conference of State Court Administrators adopted the white paper titled - Digital Recording: Changing Times for Making the Record at their December, 2009 meeting. The paper notes challenges to the current method listing the Decline in Court Reporter Resources and Efficient, Timely Transcript Production and Access to the Record. The also note opportunities of Digital Recording including the Fundamentals of the technology, access, administrative control, integration of digital recordings with CMS and potential for cost savings.

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

The E-Courts Conference West to be held in Las Vegas at the Red Rock Resort will be held from December 13-15, 2010. The previously announced dates, December 6-8 were incorrect. Many apologies for the mistake. E-Courts Conference East will be held in Tampa, Florida from September 13-15, 2010 at the Marriott Waterside.

For the CAMeditor significant changes include improvements to the Eclipse user interface and template structure display along with enhancing the top down designer and generation and handling of large dictionary structures. Also included is a new LEXS 3.1.4 dictionary with sample expander blueprint templates for LEXS messages and updates of the NIEM dictionary files to the NIEM 2.1 release. Various NIEM related enhancements have been made in support of better IEPD generation http://www.niem.gov . CAMeditor is built using Eclipse, Java, and Saxon xslt.

The CAMV validation engine is now a thread-safe implementation supporting deployment in middleware containers such as jBOSS or IBM Websphere MQ™. Validation of exchange structures now allows handling of very large XML instances with checking of a discreet subset of business content requirements. Also integration support for Java call methods SDOM has been implemented CAMV is developed in Java using Saxon, Xerces and XPath v2.0 support.

The project vision is to provide the leading open source toolset for implementing standards based information exchanges with XML, including the NIEM IEPD approach. Simplifying and speeding the development process and enhancing the quality of your resulting schema for superior XML exchanges. To date we have had over 15,500 downloads from Sourceforge.net http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/camprocessor .

I’m hoping that folks might be able to help someone who just sent me a question.

This is a company that sells mostly compliance training to the healthcare market (Hospitals, healthcare practices, individual physicians etc…). They have a licensed LMS, but want to move away from it and build a custom LMS that meets their specific needs.

Their questions:

1. What are some features that they might not be thinking about that people will be asking for in the near future? In their words, “what is the need of the hour”?

2. Is it a good idea to start with an open source LMS? Their team strength is principally .NET, ASP 2.0. Are there any open source LMS on those technologies?

And my question:

3. Does it make that much sense to build a custom LMS anymore? I’ve seen it numerous times, but I feel like some of the low cost LMS or rapid LMS solutions would make more sense?